Aftermarket fuse to tame a bright system?

I am now on day four of the Audio Magic Masterpiece M2 Fuse. I don't have a streamer - just a one disc at a time CD transport - so I have been unable to give it a 3 weeks of constant playing style burn-in, but this fuse has been enlightening. A most obvious change has been that files can be played louder now without distortion, and files can be played at lower volume than before with less loss of information. There is a somewhat wider soundstage as well with better instrument separation - cliches I know but crucial still. Perhaps the most noticeable change is that all aspects of the system have become more shall we say noticeable. The Rel S812 subs are now much more sensitive and responsive to minute adjustments of the crossover and gain settings. I also have come to realize that what I was previously perceiving as treble hotness was just distortion - not an earthshaking idea at all, but hearing is believing. The cleaning up of mumbled diction as mentioned in an earlier post still hasn't worn off on the amazement scale either,

I would love to see how the fairy paste is compounded. I wonder too if this paste could be deployed on a power cable.

Gavin1977

Anti-Cables make great products, I'd give Paul Speltz (founder and highly thought of) a call to discuss your issues and see what he recommends

Cables can take hundreds of hours to break in, I'd wait for 250 hours or so before making a final decision

Fuses - I'm using rather inexpensive fuses, ACME Audio Ceramic silver cryo fuses. The black fuses with CFC coating actually were an improvement, especially for their inexpensive $32 cost. Worth a try especially at that cost.

Funny that they seemed to increase inner detail, but also smoothed out the highs.....and reduced sibilance or brightness. Like I said, cheap to test....but they do take about 100 hours to soften up

Gustard sells a $25 fuse for their dacs, etc.  I don't know if they'd make much difference, but i guess it can't hurt.  I've got one in my dac, but I pretty much popped it in and forgot about it.  Never did any critical listening to see if it helped.

Someone else mentioned to me about the Gustard fuses - apparently they’re darker sounding and useful for tuning.

@gavin1977

Anti-cables Lvel 5.3 XLR Interconnects

"Design Concept:

Typical interconnect cables usually have a signal wire surrounded with a thick plastic dielectric material, which is then surrounded by the ground conductor to shield it from EMI/RFI noise, and then more plastic dielectric material. This typical approach has the usual drawbacks of accumulating a lot of dielectric effect distortion, and an accumulation of shunting capacitance.

The ANTICABLES Analog XLR Interconnects use a different approach. Since air is a near perfect dielectric, no extra insulation dielectric material (beyond the thin white and red coating) is used, and the wires are suspended in free air. Eliminating dielectric effect distortion is what allows these interconnects to sound like music, (not a cable)."